Hôtel Edouard 7

This stretch of avenue de l'Opéra, between rue de l'Échelle and rue Louis-le-Grand, was opened by a decree of 27 June 1876, and the avenue's buildings were given their numbers in 1877.^[1]

In 1885 the building was the Hôtel Bellevue. An advertisement in Harper's Handbook for Travellers in Europe lists it at 39 avenue de l'Opéra and 8 rue d'Antin, with reading and smoking rooms and a lift, and names the proprietor as L. Hauser.^[2]

From 11 January to 29 February 1892, the painter Paul Liot showed his landscapes and seascapes at the Hôtel Bellevue, according to the art weekly La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité.^[3]

By the mid-1920s the hotel at number 39 was called the Hôtel Edouard VII. In 1926 the writer Basil Woon described Delmonico's, a popular restaurant that had opened in the hotel two years earlier.^[4][5]

After her arrest in November 1941, the Resistance agent Mathilde Carré was taken first to the Hotel Edouard VII at 39 avenue de l'Opéra, which German security services were then using as offices.^[6]

The hotel's own history says King Edward VII made it his Paris residence. In the 1880s and 1890s, however, the building traded as the Hôtel Bellevue, and the Edouard VII name is recorded at this address only from the 1920s. The Besse group bought the hotel in 2007, and it reopened in April 2016 after three years of works, redecorated by Christophe Daudré.^{[7][2][4][8][9]}